On an open-air altar in Fuyuan, three Taoists were sitting around a large cauldron one to three feet high. The slurry in the cauldron was boiling and red in color. It was a liquid produced after melting metal.
Among them was a man with green face, black robe and black hair. He was scooping out copper juice from the cauldron one after another, holding it in the air in the palm of his hand, refining something.
This person is Xu Dao. It has been more than half a month since he visited Taoist Mo Wen. He has now sneaked into Fuyuan and became a Taoist on duty.
At this time, he was refining talisman coins for Fuyuan.
Fuqian, the money and grain currency used by Taoists, is said to have appeared in the early years of the Holy Tang Dynasty.
Such coins contain spiritual energy. Taoists can draw spiritual energy from them and boil it into true energy during practice to speed up their practice. They can also be used to quickly restore true energy during martial arts battles.
In addition, talisman money is also used in various aspects such as drawing talisman and setting up formations, refining alchemy and refining weapons, etc., which can be said to have many wonderful benefits.
However, talisman coins are not born, but are refined by Taoists.
Xu Dao stared intently at the copper juice in his hand, and through the operation of his body's magic power, he condensed the copper juice in his hand into an exquisite and small Bagua-shaped bronze medal.
Xu Dao then closed his eyes slightly, while imagining the pattern of the Lunar Moon Breathing Method in his mind, he used the photography technique to outline the corresponding runes on the hot and soft bronze medal.
After a while, a brand new talisman coin appeared in Xu Dao's hand.
The shape of this money is no different from the talisman money Xu Dao usually uses, but the color is much duller, gray, and has no aura at all.
There are three grades of talisman coins, among which the lower grade is made from red copper, the middle grade is made from silver, and the upper grade is made from gold.
The three are based on the hexadecimal system, that is, one hundred low-grade copper talisman coins are equal to one medium silver talisman coin, and one hundred medium-grade silver talisman coins are equal to one high-grade gold talisman coin. In addition, there are rumors that there are unique products
Talisman money is cut from spiritual jade, which is the crystallization of spiritual energy and does not need to be refined at all.
The refining method of talisman coins is for Taoists to imprint runes that can accumulate spiritual energy on the metal, so that it can store spiritual energy, and then accumulate spiritual energy and turn it into spiritual energy coins.
Because there is no spiritual energy in the newly refined talisman money, it cannot be used at all, so it is also called "raw money". Only after absorbing and accumulating spiritual energy, the "raw money" becomes "cooked money", can it be regarded as real talisman money.
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What Xu Dao successfully refined at this time was a piece of "raw money". He picked up the raw money in front of him and threw it into the piggy bank under the stage, making a crisp clang sound.
The refined raw money will be uniformly sent into the spiritual veins of the White Bone Temple, sealed and stored in a cellar, so that it can accumulate spiritual energy and slowly evolve into cooked money.
When the spiritual energy is fully accumulated, it will be dug out in batches and used, and the rewards will be distributed to the Taoists in the temple.
Money-generating objects are often circulated in the mortal world. Mortal people will enshrine them in ancestral temples, ancestral tombs and other places in order to slowly accumulate spiritual energy and evolve into mature money.
Although the spiritual energy in the world is so thin that it is almost impossible to hear it, it is still possible for thousands of years.
In the Fuyuan, Xu Dao had refined a raw coin. He took a short break and was about to start refining it again.
At this time, a Taoist next to him yawned loudly and muttered: "Tell me, why do Taoists in this world not keep the empty money after using up the talisman money, so that they can reuse the waste?"
"Throw them away after each use, which makes us have to refine new talisman coins every day and every month, which is very troublesome!"
This person's surname is Wang, and Xu Dao calls him the King's disciple. He has just entered Fu Yuan a few years ago, and is a newcomer like Xu Dao. He is often assigned the task of refining money by Fu Yuan.
A Taoist disciple named Liu nearby heard this and said with a smile: "Don't think about yourself. How could you ever think of keeping it without crushing the empty money when you used it?"
Although the Talisman Coin is made of copper, silver and gold, once the spiritual energy inside is absorbed, the entire coin will rust, making it extremely easy to be damaged and difficult to store.
When Xu Dao heard the two chatting, he smiled and echoed a few words. After entering Fuyuan, he did not deliberately go to camp, but after more than 20 days, he also established a good relationship with several Taoist disciples around him.
The three of them immediately started chatting.
Hearing Daoist Wang still muttering, Daotu Liu added: "There are money trees and cornucopias in the temple. I heard that they can produce up to a hundred or a thousand coins a day, but we don't need to refine them one by one..."
Xu Dao knows what the "money tree" and "treasure basin" the other party calls are. This is a magical weapon. After planting it in the spiritual vein, it can grow talisman money on its own.
As for why the temple doesn't just use magic weapons to produce talismans, but hires Taoist disciples to refine them, Xu Dao is not clear.
The reason why he felt at ease refining talisman coins in Fuyuan was, on the one hand, because this job was relatively low-level and was mostly performed by low-level Taoist disciples in Fuyuan. On the other hand, Taoist Mo Wen had hinted to him that day,
Let him master the skills of refining talisman money.
After studying these days, Xu Dao has mastered some of the techniques and methods. If you give him a copper ingot, he can produce a piece of raw money.
"It's time to change my job..." Xu Dao suddenly thought in his heart.
Unlike what he thought at first, refining talisman money does not require much skill, it just requires practice to make perfect.
Xu Dao joined Fuyuan on the one hand to avoid revenge, and on the other hand he wanted to take advantage of the environment of Fuyuan to draw talismans well and earn money. Refining talismans is a low-level job, and making money is not as fast as drawing talismans and setting up formations.
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Just as Xu Dao was thinking, footsteps sounded at the entrance of the courtyard where he was, as if someone was walking in from outside.
Before Xu Dao and the other three turned around, someone asked, "Who is Xu Dao?"
Wang Daotu and Liu Daotu both glanced at each other, and then glanced at Xu Dao without saying anything. Xu Dao followed the sound and narrowed his eyes slightly.
There were three people coming, two of them were dressed in black robes with white stripes, their bodies were empty, they were the ghosts of Taoist disciples, and the other one was a handyman in the courtyard.
When Xu Dao saw the appearance of the visitor, a thought flashed through his mind. He didn't get up, but calmly nodded and said, "That's right, poor Dao."
When the two Taoist disciples heard this, they immediately said, "Xu! You have done something wrong. Come with us to the animal courtyard."
The two of them flew towards Xu Dao with a roar, like evil ghosts trying to capture Xu Dao for torture.
When Wang and Liu Dao disciples saw it, their eyes showed surprise and suspicion. But Xu Dao reacted, with a cold look in his eyes, and he immediately confirmed the other party's identity and reason.
The two Taoist disciples who came here must have come from the animal courtyard, and had received instructions from Fang Xiaoshan's uncle, Fang Guanhai, to take Xu Dao there for questioning.
Xu Dao thought: "I thought that after these days, Fang Guanhai didn't care much about Fang Xiaoshan, but I didn't expect that he still found him."
The two Taoist disciples approached Xu Dao and used their spells one after another to restrain Xu Dao. However, Xu Dao flicked his sleeves and robes and shot out a snake-shaped force, directly knocking them back.
The Yin Shen of the two Taoist disciples shouted: "I have been ordered by the head of the beast courtyard to make a promise. How dare you disobey it?"
Since he knew that the other party was not a good person, Xu Dao did not want to waste words with the other party. He said: "You want to arrest me for nothing. Do you two know that private fights among Taoist disciples are not allowed in the temple, and there are those who provoke private fights."
Xu Dao smiled faintly and said, "You two want to have sex with me?"